Handmade folding fan making tutorial: DIY an exquisite small folding fan

Summer is the season when fans are used the most. It is best to carry a small folding fan in your bag at all times to fan yourself and enjoy the cool air. There are many types of folding fans. Hard paper fans are the best to use when fanning. This kind of folding fan can be used to enjoy the cool air, and can also play a decorative role in some performances. Friends who like handicrafts can make beautiful folding fans by themselves and give them to friends as gifts. Beautiful folding fans are also works of art. Let’s take a look at the tutorial on making handmade folding fans.

Handmade folding fan making tutorial

1. Parts of the folding fan: fan cloth (paper), buckle, fan bracket.
   
   
2. Prepare the braces by facing them outwards, sandwiching the middle bones between them, and inserting the ring fasteners. The finish will look like this. (All seven are the same length)
   
3. Draw a semicircle using a compass on plain paper. First, draw a straight line (red line) and determine the center (yellow x). From the center of the bone hole, write a circle the same length as the bone tip (outside the black line) and a circle (inside the black line) about halfway.
   
4. Cut out the fan shape using the drawn lines. We will make the mountain polyline (red line) and the valley polyline (yellow line) in 16 equal parts. For reference, first fold it in half, half and half, into a mountain fold, fold it like a mountain pleat and create a valley fold.
   
5. The folded effect will look like this. (front)
   
6. Cut one side on the left side.
   
7. Apply glue to the back of both sides (yellow dotted line ☆) and stick to the back of the next side (★). Make both sides stick together.
   
8. The next step is to glue the fan frame and fan face together. Place the fan holder on the right side of the front (red dotted line) and glue it.
   
9. This way, it puts it in the center.
   
10. Turn over the adhesive area to allow the loop fastener to pass through, as shown in the photo.
    
11. Then glue the middle bone in the same way.
    
12. Again, all the middle bones are pasted together.
    
13. After pasting everything, the effect is as shown below. Press with moderate pressure.
    
14. As shown below, this is the "back".
    
15. This is the "front end".
    
16. Leave about 2mm of buckle on the back and cut off the excess.
    
    
17. Melt the retaining ring fasteners.
    
18. Done. The exquisite folding fan is completed. How to make an exquisite folding fan by hand, try it now.
    

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